Two fresh news times about the world going to sh*t:

- Investor buys up former German Third Reich, prisoner-built concentration camp tunnel system in order to develop it into post-apocalypse survival bunkers for the rich

- Larger-than-life sculpture of Elon Musk is towed on a Tesla Cybertruck through Texas as a sales stunt for an NFT

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/halberstadt-fruehere-kz-stollen-koennten-luxusbunker-fuer-millionaere-werden-a-2ebbdf2d-5cbd-40f2-a72d-ab7e5791647d

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/large-sculpture-elon-musk-towed-cybertruck-brownsville-texas-elonrwa-nft-1234715157/

#crapularity #apocalypse #collapsology

Got interviewed, on among others: magic, software, 'post-digital' vs. 'new media', DIY culture & collectives, futures of art, the Crapularity, design as social experiment, dark sides of 'openness', artistic research:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-021-00225-9

#DIY #art #artisticresearch #FLOSS #crapularity #design #postdigital

My essay 'Welcome to the Crapularity - Design as a Problem':

"Both types of design-production, Apple’s and Aputure’s, end up in various crapular economic feedback loops. These feedback loops include GAS [Gear Aquisition Syndrome] consumption, bottom-up globalization such as the multi-storey specialist electronics shopping centers in Shenzhen and Guangzhou that serve African traders who export the goods to their home countries, the global economy of AliExpress consumption, their links to the human/non-human zombie armies of shadow banking, fintechs and crypto currency mining, resulting in whole batteries of mutually interwoven, meta- and super-wicked problems from financial system bubbles to post-democratic politics and environmental collapse.'"

https://www.archined.nl/2019/11/welcome-to-the-crapularity-design-as-a-problem/

#design #crapularity #AliExpress #globalization #overconsumption

My essay on Crapularity Aesthetics is out:
https://makingandbreaking.org/article/crapularity-aesthetics/
- Why "contemporary art" is not what its name literally means, how this reenacts the discourse of "Neue Musik", and how everything is connected to wasteful accumulation in (electronic and non-electronic) crapularities.

...as part of 'Making & Breaking', an online journal published by the research department of AKV St. Joost in Breda edited by Sebastian Olma & Patricia Reed.

#contemporaryart #art #NeueMusik #crapularity #blockchain #singularity